Hale v. City of New Orleans

The following is the liistory of this case (reported in 13 An. p. 500), which was before this Court in 1858, and thence remanded to the District Court for a new trial:

At a public sale of certain batture lots, made by the city of New Orleans, in the year 1853, twenty-two of said lots were struck off, separately, to the plaintiff, the price of twenty-one .of them being $3,100 each, and that of the remaining one, $5,500.

The lots, thus purchased by the plaintiff, comprise nearly the whole square embraced within Julia and St. Joseph streets, above and below, and Fulton and Front streets, in front…